Ruling mechanism.



D. W. 'GUSTER, RULING. MECHANISM. ALYPLIGATIONHLED NOD21, 1906.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATNT @FFIOE.

DWIGHT W. (DUSTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO OUSTER PRINTING PRESS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RULENG ME CHANISM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1999.

Original application filed. August 23, 19G6,-Seria1 No. 331,809. Divided and this application filed November 21, 1906.

Serial No. 344;,513.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DWIGHT WV. OUsTER, a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ruling Mechanism; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in ruling mechanism, this application being a division of application Serial No. 331,809, filed by me August 23rd, 1906, for improvements in automatic multiplex press the object of the invention being to provide improved means for ruling one or both sides of a continuously moving sheet, in one or more colors.

With this object in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in section illustrating my improvements and Fig. 2 is a detail view of the ruling and platen rolls.

1 represents a supporting frame to which brackets 4 are secured and support my improved ruling mechanism which will now be described.

5 and 6 represent ink reservoirs from which the ink is fed by rolls 7 and 8 respectively and rods or rollers 9, supported on pivoted links 10 rest on rolls 7 and 8 to restrict the feed of ink and more evenly distribute the ink over the rolls.

11 and 12 are ruling cylinders, 13, 14 and- 15 platen cylinders, as will now be explained in detail.

Each ruling cylinder 11 and 12, comprises a shaft on which ruling disks 16 are located and spaced apart by spacing disks 17. These ruling and spacing disks are arranged on the point system and hence any number of spacing disks may be located between the ruling disks according to the space desired between the lines. These ruling disks 16 touch the inking rolls to receive the ink therefrom and deposit it on the sheet and as they rule on opposite sides of the sheet, the platen roll 14 which will receive the freshly ruled side of the sheet thereagainst, is made with smaller disks 18 between its spacing disks 17, and these smaller disks 18 provide a series of annular grooves around the roll to permit the freshly ruled portion of the sheet to pass over the roll without contact therewith.

The ruling rolls 11 and 12 may be adjusted vertically by set screws 19 to adjust the pressure on the sheet.

20 and 21 represent liquid in reservoirs and 22 and 23 are pens fed by wicks in the reservoirs and engaging opposite sides of the sheet to longitudinally rule the sheet in a color difierent from the lines made by the rolls 11 and 12 which is very desirable in ruling lodgers, sheets, bills, and the like, and 24 indicates a shaft or roll for guiding the strip of paper beneath and in contact with the pens 23.

The operation of my improvements is as follows :The strip of paper passes between rolls 11 and 13 and the disks on roll 11 will rule the strip of paper longitudinally in one color. The strip then passes beneath pens 22 which rule the paper on the same side as that ruled by roll 11 but in a difierent color. The strip then passes around roll 14 and receives the ruling by roll 12 on the side opposite to that ruled by roll 11 and pens 22. The paper next passes over roll 24 where it is ruled by pens 23 in a color different from the lines made by the disk roll 12 but on the same side. These several ruling devices can be varied to perform almost any kind of ruling in as many colors as desired and on one or both sides, and slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention and hence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letgrooved'platen'rollerco'c 'eratingwith. each "wherebyfgroeves are; formedi'between each series ofdis'ks; and pens a ternatingwith' the "two" adj acent series-0f disks'on the platen two series of ruling disks. 7 shaft.

In a'rulingmechanism,the combination In testimonywvhereof, I'ih'aversigned' this of a ruling shaft, a platen shaft, ruling disks specification in the presence of two subscrib- 15 on the ruling shaft, a series of spacing disks ing witnesses.

between each two adjacent ruling disks, DW'IGHT W. CUSTER. several series of disks on the platen shaft, Witnesses: V and-smaller disks interposed between the LOUIS J. CATLIN,

10 .severalseriesflof .diskson the platen shaft, .HQLMES MARSHALL. 

